The opening of the shining shows images that will be used in the set, mountains and lakes are used to possibly suggest isolisation and this adds moral panic to the scene. The music used is creepy and non-diegetic which fits in well with the tracking shot used as the camera is constantly zooming into images to create the effect of us moving closer to these mountains.
Throughout the opening of the scene a birds eye view is used on the car the camera tracks this car to give the effect of being watched which is a stereotypical convention of a horror film. However the opening scene is shot in borad daylight which doesn't conform to a sterotypical horror film as they are ususually shot in poor light or in the dark to conform to the genre conventions of a horror.
We then see fog used in the shot, fog is stereotypically used to disguise something or someone to create panic and tension. At the end shot there is an image of a house on the rock mountain this suggests to me that this is where the killing will take place and this setting will be the main focus of the film.
Alice Hicks
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